LoVid
Hotter than the Sun
April 23 – May 30, 2026
Opening Reception: April 23, 6–8PM
Picture Theory is pleased to present Hotter than the Sun, the first solo exhibition with the gallery by LoVid. The exhibition brings together new textile works, videos, a sculptural installation titled Emails from the Paleolithic, and LoVid Links, an expansive media reference library, offering a layered view into the duo’s material and conceptual ecosystem.
Working across video, textiles, and installation, LoVid has long explored the translation of digital language into physical form. In this exhibition, that process becomes both subject and method: images break down, reassemble, and circulate across mediums, producing surfaces that feel simultaneously constructed and unstable.
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Magnetic Moment, 2026. acrylic, flashe, hand embroidery, dye-sublimation on polyester canvas. 43 1/2 X 29 1/2 in
The new textile works extend the duo’s signature use of “video stills” as compositional material. Here, digital fragments operate as a kind of brush—stretched, repeated, and distorted into dense ornamental fields. These compositions draw loosely from decorative vocabularies across time—architectural motifs, symmetry, and relief—only to push them toward dissolution. Fabric becomes a site of accumulation: dye-sublimated prints layered with dense threadwork and overpainted with acrylic in varying viscosities, from thin washes to glossy skins.
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Shake The Feeling 2, 2026. sound, color, 04:49 min.
The video Shake the Feeling extends this investigation into time-based media. Developed over several years from a street recording captured in Lisbon, the work reprocesses each frame into a layered, photocollage-like surface. Through repetition, pause, and manipulation, the video reflects on the contemporary condition of the digital image—where recording, editing, and circulation collapse into a continuous loop. Drawing on the visual language of widely accessible tools—from phone-based filters to surveillance aesthetics—Shake the Feeling moves between legibility and abstraction: bodies dissolve into intertwined gestures, hands and limbs merge and separate, and moments of collective celebration fragment into unstable, flickering compositions. Oscillating between dense, oversaturated color and sparse, suspended forms, the work traces how personal images accumulate into a shared visual field—at once intimate and diffuse, authored and anonymous.
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Emails from the Paleolithic, 2026. polymer print, rocks, motors, sound.
The sculptural installation Emails from the Paleolithic expands this language into a kinetic, multimedia environment. Incorporating low- and high-tech elements, automation, sound, and found materials, the work stages a collision between labor, science, and the symbolic dimensions of the natural world. Presented alongside a video with original music by Dan Friel, the installation reflects on the conditions of making—where distinctions between work and leisure, human and machine production, begin to blur under the pressures of technological acceleration.
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LoVid Links.
Complementing the exhibition, LoVid Links presents a living archive of references drawn from the duo’s long-standing engagement with artist-run culture. Composed of books, catalogs, zines, VHS tapes, DVDs, CDs, cassettes, and vinyl records, the library traces connections between LoVid’s practice and broader networks spanning experimental media, noise music, independent publishing, food culture, and neo-craft. Materials are drawn both from the artists’ personal collection and from an extended community of collaborators and influences, including Cory Arcangel, Casey Reas, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Electronic Arts Intermix, and Triple Canopy, among others.
Hotter than the Sun positions LoVid’s practice at the intersection of digital excess and material transformation. Across the exhibition, images are not fixed but continually processed—stretched, translated, and reconstituted—until they exceed their original form. What emerges is a body of work that treats instability not as a condition to resolve, but as a space of ongoing possibility.
Hotter than the Sun
April 23 – May 30, 2026
Opening Reception: April 23, 6–8PM
Picture Theory is pleased to present Hotter than the Sun, the first solo exhibition with the gallery by LoVid. The exhibition brings together new textile works, videos, a sculptural installation titled Emails from the Paleolithic, and LoVid Links, an expansive media reference library, offering a layered view into the duo’s material and conceptual ecosystem.
Working across video, textiles, and installation, LoVid has long explored the translation of digital language into physical form. In this exhibition, that process becomes both subject and method: images break down, reassemble, and circulate across mediums, producing surfaces that feel simultaneously constructed and unstable.
Magnetic Moment, 2026. acrylic, flashe, hand embroidery, dye-sublimation on polyester canvas. 43 1/2 X 29 1/2 in
The new textile works extend the duo’s signature use of “video stills” as compositional material. Here, digital fragments operate as a kind of brush—stretched, repeated, and distorted into dense ornamental fields. These compositions draw loosely from decorative vocabularies across time—architectural motifs, symmetry, and relief—only to push them toward dissolution. Fabric becomes a site of accumulation: dye-sublimated prints layered with dense threadwork and overpainted with acrylic in varying viscosities, from thin washes to glossy skins.
Shake The Feeling 2, 2026. sound, color, 04:49 min.
The video Shake the Feeling extends this investigation into time-based media. Developed over several years from a street recording captured in Lisbon, the work reprocesses each frame into a layered, photocollage-like surface. Through repetition, pause, and manipulation, the video reflects on the contemporary condition of the digital image—where recording, editing, and circulation collapse into a continuous loop. Drawing on the visual language of widely accessible tools—from phone-based filters to surveillance aesthetics—Shake the Feeling moves between legibility and abstraction: bodies dissolve into intertwined gestures, hands and limbs merge and separate, and moments of collective celebration fragment into unstable, flickering compositions. Oscillating between dense, oversaturated color and sparse, suspended forms, the work traces how personal images accumulate into a shared visual field—at once intimate and diffuse, authored and anonymous.
Emails from the Paleolithic, 2026. polymer print, rocks, motors, sound.
The sculptural installation Emails from the Paleolithic expands this language into a kinetic, multimedia environment. Incorporating low- and high-tech elements, automation, sound, and found materials, the work stages a collision between labor, science, and the symbolic dimensions of the natural world. Presented alongside a video with original music by Dan Friel, the installation reflects on the conditions of making—where distinctions between work and leisure, human and machine production, begin to blur under the pressures of technological acceleration.
LoVid Links.
Complementing the exhibition, LoVid Links presents a living archive of references drawn from the duo’s long-standing engagement with artist-run culture. Composed of books, catalogs, zines, VHS tapes, DVDs, CDs, cassettes, and vinyl records, the library traces connections between LoVid’s practice and broader networks spanning experimental media, noise music, independent publishing, food culture, and neo-craft. Materials are drawn both from the artists’ personal collection and from an extended community of collaborators and influences, including Cory Arcangel, Casey Reas, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Electronic Arts Intermix, and Triple Canopy, among others.
Hotter than the Sun positions LoVid’s practice at the intersection of digital excess and material transformation. Across the exhibition, images are not fixed but continually processed—stretched, translated, and reconstituted—until they exceed their original form. What emerges is a body of work that treats instability not as a condition to resolve, but as a space of ongoing possibility.
LoVid is a NY-based interdisciplinary artist duo working collaboratively since 2001. LoVid’s practice focuses on aspects of contemporary society where technology seeps into human culture and perception. Throughout their interdisciplinary projects over two decades, LoVid has maintained their signature visual and sonic aesthetic of color, pattern, and texture density, with disruption and noise. LoVid’s work captures an intermixed world layered with virtual and physical, materials and simulations, connection and isolation. Over the decades LoVid worked across disciplines including: immersive installations, sculptural synthesizers, single-channel videos, textile paintings, digital objects, mobile media cinema, works on paper, audiovisual and participatory performances, and stained glass.
LoVid’s works have been exhibited and performed internationally including at: Gazelli Art House, Various/Artists NY, OFFSCREEN Paris, Toledo Museum of Art, Nantes Museum of Arts, Buffalo AKG Museum, Museum of the Moving Image, Grand Rapids Museum, Menil Collection, Anthology Film Archives, Postmasters Gallery, Honor Fraser Gallery, The Parrish Museum, MoMA, Issue Project Room, Science Gallery Dublin, The Jewish Museum NY, Daejeon Museum, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Butler Institute of American Art, and New Museum. LoVid has received grants and awards from organizations such as The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Graham Foundation, Eyebeam, Harvestworks, Wave Farm, Rhizome, Franklin Furnace, NYFA, Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, Experimental TV Center, New York State Council on the Arts, and the Greenwall Foundation. LoVid’s work is in private and public collections, including the Whitney Museum, the Museum of the Moving Image, the Parrish Museum, Thoma Foundation, and the Heckscher Museum. LoVid’s work has been written about in Artforum, Art in America, New Yorker, Refresh, The Artnewspaper, Right Click Save, OUTLAND, Hyperallergic, and Leonardo Magazine.